The Acts of the Apostles

Chapter 18

Being rejected by the Jews, Paul turns to the Gentiles—He preaches, ministers, and travels—Apollos also preaches with power.

1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;

2 And found a certain Jew named aAquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and awrought: for by their occupation they were btentmakers.

4 And he reasoned in the asynagogue every bsabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

5 And when Silas and aTimotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and btestified to the Jews that Jesus wascChrist.

6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he ashookhis raiment, and said unto them, Your bbloodbe upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

7 ¶ And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

8 And aCrispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing bbelieved, and were baptized.

9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a avision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much apeople in this city.

11 And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

12 ¶ And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,

13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to aworship God contrary to the law.

14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or awickedblewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

15 But if it be a aquestion of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.

16 And he drave them from the judgment seat.

17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

18 ¶ And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a avow.

19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and areasoned with the Jews.

20 When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;

21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

22 And when he had landed at Cæsarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.

23 And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

24 ¶ And a certain Jew named aApollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, andbmighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

25 This man was ainstructed in the way of the Lord; and being bfervent in the spirit, he spake and taught cdiligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of dJohn.

26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren awrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace: